Tim will direct his next two films at Disney.
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I’m so psyched, I can’t put it into words. 
Siiiick. I can’t believe they’re remaking Alice in Wonderland. I was hoping for some 2D though. Can’t wait to see the teasers!!
AHH! Yes! I’ve been waiting for Tim Burton to do a remake of Alice in Wonderland. x3
And Frankenweenie … I dunno, loved the short but I doubt it can be a full length film. But, I could be wrong. Deserves more recognition, I can say that much.
I wonder if this will delay Tim’s supposed collaboration with Pixar…? Or maybe there wasn’t going to be any collab at all, but that would be weird since him and Lasseter are very good associates and have the same ideals when it comes to animation/movies.
Me too. After seeing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory I thought that Alice would be perfect for him. Can’t wait to see how he interprets the book, which is pretty wacky as it is.
I clicked on that link but ads started popping up and going away only to be replaced with ones that floated around covering as much as they possibly could so I closed the window. 
I guess I’ll just have to get my info here, lol.
Whaaaaat?!
I would’ve also hoped it would be in 2D, but I’m sure it’ll come out just as great, knowing Tim’s way of doing things You’d think I would’ve heard about this already, though. Haha. Is it just a rumor, or is it actually confirmed?
Oh, it’s confirmed, my friends. 
I guess now the Alice in Wonderland movie I was creating for Tim has gone clean out the window now. 
Seriously, and this is my idea, I had him in mind when I was making casting choices - Jim Carrey has to be the voice of the Cheshire Cat.
He actually says in Burton on Burton that Frankenweenie could’ve been a feature-length film, so I’m excited for that, paticularly because it’s going to be stop-motion animation.
Yeah, I know a TON of people who’ve been wanting Tim to make Alice in Wonderland, including myself. I always thought it would be a wonderful idea, and I think it’s perfect material for him. He’ll make it into something amazing, just wait and see
Oh sweet! I can’t wait for it, especially Alice in Wonderland!
Cool! I can’t wait for the Burton version of Alice In Wonderland. I’ve never been dissappointed by any Tim Burton film I have seen. So, I’m sure it would be a great movie.
This is very, very interesting! It’s gonna be cool to see Tim put a twist on an already strange concept with Alice in Wonderland- it will transform really, really well into his style- and the other film sounds good too; you can’t go wrong with stop-motion animation, especially when it’s Burton-esque.
Oh, just thought I’d let you guys know. The producers of Alice in Wonderland are Richard D. Zanuck , Joe Roth, Suzanne Todd, and Jennifer Todd.
Roth and Suzanne and Jennifer Todd are first-time Burton collaborators. This will be Zanuck’s fifth time working with Tim. He previously was a producer on Planet of the Apes , Big Fish , Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , and Sweeney Todd : The Demon Barber of Fleet Street . His other credits include Jaws , The Sting , Cocoon , Driving Miss Daisy , and The Road to Perdition .
I just found this on the Tim Burton Collective, and it’s really getting me excited. I can NOT wait!
Ooh, the idea of Tim Burton doing Alice in Wonderland is exciting, he’s so suited to it, but the ‘performance-capture imagery’ bit is worrying me. I don’t think motion capture looks anywhere near as good as hand drawn or 3-D animation; the faces look really stiff as if they’re not moving naturally. It always gives me the distinct impression that they’re trying to make something to cash in on the success of companies like Pixar, but cheaply.
Still, if Burton’s helming it, I can’t wait to see. I’m not convinced Frankenweenie could make a full length film. It’s a cute idea, but they’d have to work it more as a family film than a spoof of a B movie for it to work. Burton’s never made a financially successful B-movie spoof (Ed Wood and Mars Attack! didn’t fare well at the box office) and I don’t see Disney taking the risk otherwise.
I admit that when I heard that Alice was going to be part motion-capture, I was hesitant to the idea at first. When I first thought of Tim doing the film, I thought of it as stop-motion, because it seemed like the story and the characters take to that form. But stop-motion comes with it’s own set of problems (as well as motion-capture) . On Nightmare , they used replacement heads , and they used mechanical heads on Corpse Bride which gave a lot more sutblety and expressive look than replacement heads/animation which is more locked-off and predetermined by the voice track. I’m actually starting to understand why the live-action/motion-capture combination works because it can go from live-action to motion-capture (much like James and the Giant Peach did with live-action and stop-motion, and even in some cases combined both the elements in the same scene) . Motion-capture (to me anyway) seems suitable to the " Wonderland" sequences and characters like the Cheshire Cat, etc. We all know that Tim will make it work and make it good.
I could go on, but I think you guys get what I’m saying.
I have faith in Burton and doubt he will use straight up mo-cap. To go with the Brad Bird philosophy, there are a lot of good uses of mo-cap like King Kong or Golum in Lord of the Rings that are much more expressive than the straight up lifeless junk we see in Polar Express or Happy Feet. The catch is that this has been tampered with by animators that add in an artistic touch to make the difference. Frequently they will even just use the C-frame from the mo-cap and animate around that. It’s kinda like the old Rotoscope process they used to use in 2D animation. There are bad examples like in Cinderella where they used straight up tracings of the film and there are good examples like Cruella DeVil that the rotoscope was used to capture her movements, but animators took a lot of artistic liberties with to achieve some very dramatic effects.
gulp I’m scared… (snigger)
Wow. Well, you got your Alice in Wonderland, Bill! Actually, I’m rather interested to see how Mr. Burton shall pull this off, even though I’m generally not a fan of his films.
It looks as if I may get a chance to meet Tim Burton, as well, if my dad continues to work for Disney Studios when the guy walks through the doors. I’ll just have to wait and see…
Oh, and I swear that Mr. Burton kinda looks like Alfredo Linguini.
– Mitch
Mitch: Alfrado linguini huh? Funny!
I’m looking forward to the feature film version of Frankenweenie , and the fact that it’s in stop-motion is very promising. I can see the characters taking to that form. Plus, I’m interested to see what he does with it, by that I mean taking his 25-minute short to feature length.
I believe we can expect Alice to be released in late August 2008 or later since production is scheduled to wrap in May. I expect Frakenweenie to be released sometime in 2009, but maybe I’m looking ahead a little too much.
Heh, I don’t see the resemblance…